Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States (Princeton Studies in American Politics : Historical, Internati)

Why has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hattam demonstrates that voluntarism, as American labor's policy was known, was the American Federation of Labor's strategic response to the structure of the American state, particularly to the influence of American courts. The AFL's strategic calculation was not universal, however. This book reveals the competing ideologies and acts of interpretation that produced these variations in state-labor relations.Victoria C. Hattam is the author of 'Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States (Princeton Studies in American Politics : Historical, Internati)', published 1993 under ISBN 9780691078700 and ISBN 069107870X.